New Issue: Manuscript and Text Cultures

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): Navigating the text: textual articulation and division in pre-modern cultures
(open access)

Editorial article

Introduction: navigating complex texts from pre-modern cultures in the digital age
Yegor Grebnev, Lesley Smith

Articles

Navigating early Chinese daybook divination manuals
Christopher J. Foster

Structuring astral science: a Demotic astrological manual from Graeco-Roman Egypt (Berlin, Egyptian Museum, P. Berlin 8345)
Andreas Winkler

A trilingual sales contract on papyrus from Roman Arabia (P.Yadin I 22)
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

The page architecture of a deluxe Arabic dictionary from Islamic Spain
Umberto Bongianino

Legally binding: the textual layout of a copper-plate grant from South Asia
Francesco Bianchini

The Karlevi runestone
Heather O’Donoghue

Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.5.4, folio 135v: the Psalms, with commentary by Peter Lombard
Lesley Smith

Reading Ancient Maya hieroglyphic books
Christian Prager

MS Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, Parm. 3852: a meeting point for a medieval Ethiopian king-usurper with modern pro-Italian actors
Nafisa Valieva

New/Recent Publications

Books

Archiving Cultures, Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory, by Jeannette A. Bastian (Routledge, March 2023).

The Sunday Paper: A Media History.
Paul S. Moore, Sandra Gabriele. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022

Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence
Brahim El Guabli (Fordham University Press, 2023)

Articles

Kaspar Beelen, Jon Lawrence, Daniel C S Wilson, David Beavan, Bias and representativeness in digitized newspaper collections: Introducing the environmental scan, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 1, April 2023, Pages 1–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac037

Lucia Giagnolini, Marilena Daquino, Francesca Mambelli, Francesca Tomasi, Exploratory methods for relation discovery in archival data, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 1, April 2023, Pages 111–126, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac036

Patricia Martin-Rodilla, Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Same text, same discourse? Empirical validation of a discourse analysis methodology for cultural heritage, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 1, April 2023, Pages 224–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac038

Ana Roeschley, “Symbiosis or friction: Understanding participant motivations for information sharing and institutional goals in participatory archive initiatives,” Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2023.

Menhour, H., Şahin, H. B., Sarıkaya, R. N., Aktaş, M., Sağlam, R., Ekinci, E., & Eken, S. (2023). Searchable Turkish OCRed historical newspaper collection 1928–1942. Journal of Information Science, 49(2), 335–347. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515211000642

Diulio, M. de la P., Gardey, J. C., Gomez, A. F., & Garrido, A. (2023). Usability of data-oriented user interfaces for cultural heritage: A systematic mapping study. Journal of Information Science, 49(2), 359–372. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515211001787

He, Y., & Chen, Z. (2023). Mass aesthetic changes in the context of the development of world museums. Journal of Information Science, 49(2), 519–528. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515211007729

Pacios, A. R., & Martínez-Cardama, S. (2023). Transparency in Spanish archive and library websites: A comparative study. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 55(1), 99–110. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006211063203

Tyagi, S. (2023). Preservation and conservation of indigenous manuscripts. IFLA Journal, 49(1), 143–156. https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352221103899

Li, Rankang, et al. “Text Detection Model for Historical Documents Using CNN and MSER,” Journal of Database Management (JDM) 34, no.1: 1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/JDM.322086

Reviews

Robert C. Schwaller, ed. African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama: A History in Documents. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. xvii + 285 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8061-6933-0.
Reviewed by Daniel Nemser (University of Michigan)

New Issue: Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

Volume 19 Issue 1, March 2023
(subscription)

The Legacy of Welsh Botanist Jessie Gwendoline O’Callaghan (née Insole; 1882–1932)
Michael Statham, Heather Pardoe, Vanessa Cunningham

New Life for a Legacy: The La Verne Historical Society and Inman Conety’s 1938 International Truck
Benjamin Jenkins, Sherry Best

“Impressive Miniature Scenes Full of Life and Humour”: The Interpretation of Netsuke at the Museum Folkwang 2010 to 2021
Ryan Nutting

Preservation of Audiovisual Collections at Albert Ilemobade Library, Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria
Oluwole Ejiwoye Rasaki, Adeola Oyebisi Egbedokun, Akeem Adedayo Adedimeji

“Of War Tanks and Military Memorabilia”: A Look at the Conservation of Military Collections at the Zimbabwe Military Museum (ZMM)
Simbarashe Shadreck Chitima, Amos Zevure

Book Review: Narratives of (Dis)Enfranchisement: Reckoning with the History of Libraries and the Black and African American Experience and Narratives of (Dis)Engagement: Exploring Black and African American Students’ Experiences in Libraries
Katharine Chandler

Book Review: A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of U.S. Museums
Alexa Cummins

Book Review: Metadata for Digital Collections, A How-To-Do-It Manual
Susan A. Barrett

New Issue: Archival Issues

The newest issue of the Midwest Archives Conference’s journal, Archival Issues, is now available! This issue (42.1) includes three full-length articles and seven publication reviews.

The entire issue can be viewed online in MAC’s open access repository: www.iastatedigitalpress.com/archivalissues/issue/1196/…

Featured Articles:

“Amplifying Civil Rights Collections with Oral Histories: A Collaboration with Alumni at Queens College, City University of New York” by Annie Tummino and Victoria Fernandez

doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.16292

“Understanding History, Building Trust, and Sharing Appraisal Authority: Engaging Underrepresented Student Groups through Culture Centers” by Jessica Ballard and Cara Bertram

doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.16293

“Situating Community Archives Along the Continuum of Community-Engaged Archival Praxis: Autonomy, Independence, and the Archival Impulse” by Lindsay Kistler Mattock and Aiden M. Bettine

doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.16294

Thank you to the authors, reviewers, editors, and others whose excellent work made this issue possible.

Best regards,

Brandon T. Pieczko

Archival Issues Editorial Board Chair

New Issue: Archives and Records

Archives and Records, 44 (2023)
Special Issue: New Professional and Student Research

Articles

Establishing special collections literacy for undergraduate students: an investigation into benefits and barriers of access
Joanna Baines

The ghosts of old readers: social media, representation and gender in the information sector
Gabrielle Bex

Preserving Ancient Egyptian cultural heritage: an examination of the role of egyptological archives
Alix Robinson

Grave concerns: the state of public cemetery records management in South Africa
Marie-Louise Rouget

Engagement with decolonizing archival practices in the UK archives sector: a survey of archives workers’ attitudes
Flore Janssen

‘It’s good for them to feel stretched’: collaborative volunteer projects at the Staffordshire Record Office
Helen Houghton-Foster

Re-animation and interrogation: Irish visual and performing artists’ encounters with the archive
Jennifer Branigan

Book Reviews

Records of the Jesus Guild in St Paul’s Cathedral, c.1450-1550: an edition of Oxford, Bodleian MS Tanner 221, and associated material
edited by Elizabeth A. New, Woodbridge, The Boydell Press for the London Record Society, 2022, xvi + 311 pp., £60 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-90095-262-3 (London Record Society Publications, Volume LVI)
Anthony Smith

Sustainable Enterprise Strategies for Optimizing Digital Stewardship: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
by Angela Fritz, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021, xv, 95 pp, £30 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-5381-4286-8
Rachel MacGregor

Trinity College Library Dublin: a descriptive catalogue of manuscripts containing Middle English and some Old English
by John Scattergood, Niamh Pattwell and Emma Williams, Four Courts Press, 2021, xxxvii + 367 pp., €55 (hardback),ISBN 978-1-84682-852-2
Jade Godsall

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and connections
edited by Claire Breay and Joanna Story, with Eleanor Jackson, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2021, xviii + 242 pp., €65 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-84682-866-9
Richard Wragg

Economic considerations for libraries, archives and museums
edited by Lorraine A. Stuart, Thomas F. R. Clareson and Joyce Ray, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY, Routledge, 2022, 238 pp., £29.59 (eBook), ISBN 978-1-003-03710-1
Louise Ray

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Sunil Tyagi, “Preservation and conservation of indigenous manuscripts,” IFLA Journal, 49 no. 1 (2023): 143–156.

Naiman, J.P., Williams, P.K.G. & Goodman, A. “The digitization of historical astrophysical literature with highly localized figures and figure captions.” International Journal of Digital Libraries (2023).

dos Santos, E.A., Peroni, S. & Mucheroni, M.L. “Referencing behaviours across disciplines: publication types and common metadata for defining bibliographic references.”

Books

Virginie Rey. Mediating Museums: Exhibiting Material Culture in Tunisia (1881–2016). Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib Series. Leiden: Brill, 2019

New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science, Volume 23, issue 1, March 2023

Farewell and thank you to Beth Yakel; welcome to Fiorella Foscarini
Karen AndersonGillian Oliver

Archives and the Digital World
Ricardo L. Punzalan

US–soviet fisheries research during the cold war: data legacies
Adam KriesbergJacob Kowall

The representation of NARA’s INS records in Ancestry’s database portal
Katharina Hering

In search of the item: Irish traditional music, archived fieldwork and the digital
Patrick Egan

The impact of the shift to cloud computing on digital recordkeeping practices at the University of Michigan Bentley historical library
Dallas PillenMax Eckard

Digital knowledge sharing: perspectives on use, impacts, risks, and best practices according to Native American and Indigenous community-based researchers
Diana E. Marsh

“The only way we knew how:” provenancial fabulation in archives of feminist materials
Jessica M. Lapp

New Publications

Museum Management: Opportunities and Threats for Successful Museums (Arts, Research, Innovation and Society).
Milan Jan. Půček, František. Ochrana, Michal. Plaček
Springer, 2022

Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age
Crymble, A.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021

Copyright and Streaming Audiovisual Content in the US Context
Danielle Cooper and Katherine Klosek
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Ithaka S+R, 2023

Scoping Skills and Developing Training Programme for Managing Repository Services in Cultural Heritage Organisations
Holt, Ilkay; Miles, Susan; Marples, Alice; Kaur, Kirrn; Cope, Jez
British Library, 2022

Bernasconi, E., Ceriani, M., Mecella, M. et al. Design, realization, and user evaluation of the ARCA system for exploring a digital library. Int J Digit Libr (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-022-00343-0

Copyright and Streaming Audiovisual Content in the US Context
Danielle Miriam Cooper, Katherine Klosek
ITHAKA S+R, 2023

A*CENSUS II: Archives Administrators Survey
Makala Skinner
ITHAKA S+R, 2023

The Digital Decisive Moment: Transformative Digitization Practices
Margot Note
Lucidea, 2023

Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition: Changes, Challenges, and Convergence in a Scandinavian Perspective
Edited By Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen, Kerstin Rydbeck, Håkon Larsen
Routledge, 2023

Amanda Furiasse, “Sailing on Encrypted Seas: The Archive and Digital Memory in African and Diasporic Futurism,” Journal of Cultural Analytics Vol. 7, Issue 4, 2022.

“Library Impact Research Report: A Toolkit for Demonstrating and Measuring Impact of Primary Sources in Teaching and Learning“
Clare Withers, Diana Dill, Jeanann Haas, Kathy Haines, and Berenika Webster.
Association of College and Research Libraries, 2022

New Issue: ESARBICA

ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archive s , Vol. 41 (2022)

Golden bulb covered with a dark cloth: memories of undocumented athletes in South Africa
Joseph Matshotshwane; Mpho Ngoepe

Website as a gateway for the provision of public archives and records management guidance
a Botswana – South Africa comparison
Olefhile Mosweu

Digitisation of audio-visual archives at the National Archives of Zimbabwe
Amos Bishi

Covid-19, a catalyst or disruptor? comprehending access to records and archives under the new normal
Simbarashe Manyika, Peterson Dewah

E-records guidance tools in records sharing at Tanzania Public Service College
Chiku M Chang’a, Kardo J Mwilongo

Management of electronic records in the South African public sector
Mpubane Emanuel Matlala, Asania Reneilwe Maphoto

Factors influencing access to archives at Botswana National Archives and Records Services
Manyeke Manek, Tshepho Mosweu

Records management in an ISO certified environment: a case study of Botho University in Botswana
Koketsego Sini Pitsonyane, Nathan Mnjama

Customer satisfaction in records management at Botswana Examinations Council
Gladness Richard, Priti Jain

Archiving the voices of the once voiceless: strategies for digital preservation of oral history at the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Archives
Mbongeni Tembe (Malokotha), Zawedde Nsibirwa

Infrastructure for the implementation of artificial intelligence to support records management at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa
Mashilo Modiba, Patrick Ngulube, Ngoako Marutha

Digital records management practices in the public sector in Manicaland Province of Zimbabwe
Oscar Sigauke

Embedding digital preservation strategies in the management of institutional repositories in South Africa
Lungile Luthuli

Records management system at the eNews Channel Africa
Nduduzo Simphiwe Sithole, Isabel Schellnack-Kelly